A review by sindri_inn_arsaeli
Uncle Boris in the Yukon and Other Shaggy Dog Stories by Daniel Pinkwater

Did not finish book.

3.0

DNF. I feel like I have given up on more books in the past year than I normally do, but this one just couldn't grab me. The early chapters were surprisingly depressing. Pinkwater uses humor (in theory) to lighten the mood, but the most I ever felt like was a little chuckle. The middle chapters (I made it about half way through) were surprisingly dull. For a memoir about pets there were fewer than expected, and the ones that made an appearance didn't elicit as much emotional response from the author as expected either. And there wasn't very much at all about this Uncle Boris who features so heavily in the title and cover illustration. If I owned this book, I'd probably eventually finish, but it was a library book and I had several more highly anticipated books just about to come to me on hold, so I returned it and will be unlikely to feel inspired to search it out again.